Patricia Duncker

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Patricia Duncker (* 1951 in Kingston , Jamaica ) is a British writer and university professor .

Life

She moved with 13 over to Britain, where they English at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge as well as English and German romance at St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford studied. She lives alternately in Aberystwyth and the south of France and has taught literary studies at Aberystwyth University in Wales and creative writing at the University of East Anglia . Since January 2007 she has been teaching at the University of Manchester .

Her novel Die Germanistin was awarded the McKitterick Prize of the Society of Authors in 1997 as the best debut by an author over 40 years.

Works

  • The Germanist. OT: Hallucinating Foucault , translated from English by Karen Nölle-Fischer. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-8270-0212-5 .
  • Monsieur Shoushana's lemon trees . (Title not in German.) Ecco - Harper Collins, New York / USA 1998.
  • James Miranda Barry . OT: James Miranda Barry , translated from English by Heidi Zerning. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-8270-0320-2 .
  • James Miranda Barry. OT: The doctor. A novel . Ecco - Harper Collins, New York / USA 2000. - American edition by James Miranda Barry . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 1999. ISBN 3-8270-0320-2 .
  • The deadly gap. OT: The deadly space between , translated from English by Barbara Schaden. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003. ISBN 3-8270-0466-7
  • Seven stories of sex and death. OT: Seven tales of sex and death , translated from English by Barbara Schaden, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2005. ISBN 3-8270-0465-9 .
  • Miss Webster and Chérif. OT: Miss Webster and Chérif , translated from English by Werner Loch-Lawrence . Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-8270-0668-6 .
  • The composer and his judge. OT: The strange case of the composer and his judge , translated from English by Barbara Schaden. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-8270-0915-9 .
  • Sophie and the Sibyl. OT: Sophie and the Sybil , translated from English by Barbara Schaden. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-8270-1274-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Previous winners of the McKitterick Prize. In: Homepage. Society of Authors , accessed July 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Duncker, Patricia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican writer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica